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The free software scanner utility from McAfee lists The Pirate Bay and other BitTorrent sharing sites as a security threat, and is categorizing them as distributing “potential illegal software.”

McAfee’s Security Scan Plus diagnostic tool now lists The Pirate Bay and several other BitTorrent sites as “harmful.”

The tool is available as a free download, and is nothing more than a utility that lists sites that are potentially dangerous. If users want to eliminate threats from their machine, they are directed to buy one of McAfee’s paid security suites.

Furthermore, it looks like the utility is not consistent, as running the scan again does not show The Pirate Bay as a security threat. The domain that is listed is the older ThePirateBay.org, which now serves as nothing more than a redirect for the newer ThePirateBay.sx domain. Other BitTorrent sharing sites like Torrentz.eu and Kat.ph have also been categorized as harmful sites. It looks like site classification data is being pulled from McAfee’s SiteAdvisor service.

One reason these torrent sites have been targeted now is that they all feature some form of advertising that can be considered as malicious. However, sites like BTGuard, which is a BitTorrent proxy site, has also been classified as a threat on McAfee’s SiteAdvisor site. The site lists BTGuard as containing “potential illegal software, anonymizers.”

It doesn’t look like McAfee is using any determined criteria to weed out such sites. The security firm did submit a patent through by which it aims to detect any malicious content on a site and block it, showing users verified legal alternatives. However, it looks like McAfee needs to bolster its detection mechanisms before it can release such a utility.